05 The Shaved Eyebrows

眉毛刮掉以后

(By Ariel Subrahmanyam)

It was evening and time for my little sister and me to take our showers and get ready for bed. As I passed the mirror in the bathroom, there it was - a wild hair right in the middle of my forehead, threatening to be the beginning of the third eyebrow. I went into the shower trying to think of a solution, and then I spotted a razor. I took it and started trying to shave off the savage hair.

某一天晚上，我和妹妹是时间去洗个澡，准备上床睡觉了。当我从浴室的镜子前走过时，我看到了它——我前额正中间的那绺乱发，似乎要长成我的第三条眉毛了。我一边洗澡，一边努力想着解决办法，然后我看见了剃刀。我拿起它，开始试着把那绺乱发剃掉。

Usually I would trust my mom's advice about what to do in this sort of situation, but this was just too complicated for her -or so I thought. Well, while I was shaving that hair off, the razor slipped, and I ended up shaving off half my eyebrow! Then I did what any girl would do in this situation -I tried to even them out . When I was finished, I looked in the mirror. It was a disaster! I tried to figure out if there was any way to fix this mess. Thankfully, I found a way to hide my mistake. I put my bangs over my eyebrows. It worked perfectly!

通常，我都会听从妈妈关于如何处理这类问题的建议，但这个问题对她来说太复杂了——或者我是这样认为的。然而就在我剃那绺头发的时候，